What would you do to make more people support stem cell research?

Question

Like a plan.

Answer 1

Well, almost all the opposition to stem cell research seems to be rooted in religion. So, what I would do is vote the evangelical conservatives out of office because they perpetuate the concept that stem cell research is baby murder.

It would also help tremendously if the Catholic Church refrained from making inflammatory statements to their constituents around the world about how evil stem cell research is. The US bishops and the Pope tell Catholics that it is equivalent to euthanasia and abortion and even petitioned the President not to authorize federal funding.

If not for their religious and "moral" leaders being against it, most rationale people would support the concept.

Answer 2

The way to do it would be to show what stem cell research has done and can do in plain, simple terms that people can relate to. Like how it could help Alzheimer's or cancer. Diseases that affect a lot of people's lives. Stem cell research needs to stop being treated like some lofty science and explained to people in understandable ways.

Answer 3

Point out that we already use stem cell therapy. For example, for leukemia one treatment is to completely irradiate the blood marrow destroying the immune system (no white blood cells, etc). However, one hematopoietic stem cell can re-establish the entire immune system within a short time.

I think most people would accept this therapy if they had leukemia. It is obviously an effective treatment (granted however that it only uses multipotent, not totipotent embryonic stem cells).

Answer 4

Nothing. The powers that be want quantity, not quality. It's all about getting to the top first and making as much money from it as possible.